Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-09
THE MESSAGE.

WIN oo BfdtuyiuR tO Inc couHhJ'
the most radical departure from the
usual style of such documents that has
been produced in a century by any exec
utive. All the routine garbliEg from the
several department reports is wanting.
Even mention of the friendly re-
Iations that the country sustains
to Japan, Corea and Msdagas
has been omitted. Congress is
informed that no legislation is needed in
our relations with other countries, ex-
:nended in executive messages. For infor
nation as to the affairs of the several de
partmenss of the government the presI-
dent refers congress to the reports of the
department officials.
The message launches at once into the
sanject which is clearly that of greatest
concern 20 the chief magistrate-the
finances and taxation. No other ques
ton is discussed, and the president Gays
this is of such transcendent Importance
that he must forego illusions to any
other question and urge upon congress
the immediate and careful consideration
of the national treasury. Through the
entire six thousand words contained in
the message, .he president appeals to
congress TO take up the subject and en-
act such legislation as will cut down the
enormous surplus drained from the peo-
pie and piled up in the treasury. The
fnegsnpe roiuta in cte iinhf of
which the country actually knows but
littls, the expedeints resorted,to BY the |
government to get the exhorbi |
tant and Unnecessary surplus back
into the channels of trade, commerce and
industry. The president shows that after
having already purchased at high pre-
MUM the bonds necessary to comply |
with the sinking fund for the present
fiscal year the surplus in the treasury is
likely to reach $4,000, 900 before the
end OF the year. He points out the ina
biity Of the government to longer apply
this surplus to a reduction of the debt
and the certainty of disaster to the in
dustries of the nation if taxation is not
at once lessened. To do this perfectly
unanswerable argument is made for n re-
vision and modification of the tariff du-
ties. 1t ia not necessary here to go over
this argument. The message places up
On congress duty that that body will
hardly dare to neglect.
SO far as Grover Cleveland is concerned
he has placed himself and his admins
tration on record in Il message that the
whole country will read and understand.
IL now remains for congress to make up
its record, and if that body fails to do it,
the country will be certain to call it to an
account that it will remember.
POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS.
Gen. Bragg denies emphatically that
he managed Dick Guenther's campaign
in the Second district.
The Arkansaw Gazette says: "An eff
fort has been made to secure the vacant |
Mexican mission for Col. A. s. Colyar, of
Tennessee. He would most worthily ill |
the position
The republican majority in Iowa is on
the decline. On a total vote of S37,719 |
the republican candidate for governor of
Iowa received only 1861 majority over
the democratic and greenback candidates
combined against 6 $40 majority in 1885.
The Chicago Evening journal (repub
lioan) says: "I. is claimed that the Ne
braska aa we'll as the Iowa delegation il,
the republican national convention will
be solidly in favor of United States Sena-
tor Allison for president. The western
Blaine men generally appear to be for
Allison as their second choice"
Gen. Bragg has been interviewed in re-
gard to the Mexican ministry. He said
that 1t would not be quite proper to say
whether or not he would accept il until
il was offered TO him, but he added, that
ho was getting old aud needed rest and
that he eould not go into court at call
ready to try causes as he used to; that if
his health were unimpaired he had rather
practice law than hold Office. There
seems to be little doubt that the general
will accept the Office if the president ten
ders it to him.
A WAshGNGToN dispatch says: Senator
Palmer, of Michigan, will introduce at
the first chance bill to restrict immi-
grafton into the United States. The bill
will make it necessary fox immigrants to
get certificates of the United States con
sui of the district from which they come
MS to their good character. The inten-
tion is to prevent an influx of nihilists,
socialists, etc, which seems imminent
from the anarchists threats that their
great coup will be mado during tho cleo
items next fall" This is indeed step |
in the right direction and it is to be
hoped that the measure will find strong
support in congress and become law.
A nrLL to create a new executive de-
partment To be known as the department
of industries and public works, has been
prepared by Congressman Townhend, Of
Illinois, and will be presented at the pros
ent session. 1t proposes to place under
the charge of the new department the
coast and geological survey, the agricul-
tural bureau, the weather bureau, rivers
and harhors, the labor bureau, the ma
tional observatory, the patent bur
eau, etc.
Mr. TrRPIE, though elected by fraudulent
methods as senator frcm Indiana was sworn in
without objection yesterday Milwaukee SEN
tinel
Yes, if the Milwaukee Sentinel aud
State journal could be believed, Judge
Turpie is a very bad man, and was elected
in scandalous manner. This is what
those sheets have been hollering ever
since Judge Turpie elected. But,
with all it's evidence before it, the U. S.
senate seems TO have had no hesitaucy
how to act.